Recommendation letter

[Raj1994]

I am preparing my EB1-OR application. I drafted the recommendation letters myself, but one of the recommenders wishes to add the following sentence:

"Dr. x is one of the brightest young professionals in the area of xxx. "

Do you think being a "young professional" would work against you in case of EB1-OR. If needed I can ask him to remove this sentence. I might use the same letter for EB1-EA later on.

Please comment if you have any suggestions. Thanks.

 

[leroythelion]

I am preparing my EB1-OR application. I drafted the recommendation letters myself, but one of the recommenders wishes to add the following sentence:

"Dr. x is one of the brightest young professionals in the area of xxx. "

Do you think being a "young professional" would work against you in case of EB1-OR. If needed I can ask him to remove this sentence. I might use the same letter for EB1-EA later on.

Please comment if you have any suggestions. Thanks.

I would take out the word "young".

Quite frankly, I think similar commendations (using even stronger language) should already have been in all the letters.

Brian

 

[Reverse_Man]

I had a writer of a letter on my behalf use "young researcher" for my O-1 petition, and later for my I140 application (essentially the same letter in both cases). I was approved for O-1 without any problems, I'm still waiting for 140 adjudication. I don't think the BCIS folks are that nitpicky. Age is a relative thing, usually the people writing letters are much older than the applicants, or at least it was in my case. If you can get several stalwarts in their field to say that you are brilliant and have some outstanding contributions to the field, it's even more impressive if you are only 21 or 23, unless, of course, if the whole application is a sham.

Max